By Christina Hallowell Garrett
First released in 1938, C. H. Garrett's The Marian Exiles offers info of just about 800 people who left England within the reign of Mary Tudor for worry of non secular or political persecution. She has searched via continental data, quite in Switzerland and Germany, to supply short biographies of the identified exiles, details which used to be now not available to English students. an important minority of the emigrants grew to become vital below Elizabeth I, and it truly is transparent that they remained in touch with friends and family in England whereas out of the country. The Protestant perspectives of a few of the exiles have been radicalised by means of their reports in Europe, and a few makes an attempt to foster plots opposed to Mary have been made. Frankfurt expelled John Knox for seditious preaching opposed to Mary, and town of Wesel requested its English congregation to go away. whereas a few of Garrett's hypotheses at the moment are outmoded, the Census of Exiles is still a precious source.
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